This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, May 16, 1998. The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Debbie Terry. Observation: 0710-1700 AM: Sunny, 70 degrees F., SE 5K PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., SE 15K Common Loon 3 (1 breeding, 1 transition, 1 winter) Double-crested Cormorant 39 Great Blue Heron 50 Canada Goose 12 (10 adult, 2 young) American Black Duck 10 Mallard 100 (57 male, 22 female, 21 young) Osprey 14 Northern Harrier 2 (1 female, 1 immature) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) American Coot 1 Black-bellied Plover 2 Semipalmated Plover 154 Killdeer 16 Lesser Yellowlegs 39 Spotted Sandpiper 32 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 29 Least Sandpiper 729 White-rumped Sandpiper 2 Dunlin 94 peep sp. 300 Short-billed Dowitcher 40 Laughing Gull 2 Ring-billed Gull 2 Herring Gull 72 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (2nd summer, arrival) Great Black-backed Gull 91 Caspian Tern 240 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 (arrival) Great Crested Flycatcher 2 (arrival) Eastern Kingbird 14 Tree Swallow 12 Barn Swallow 25 Blue Jay 1 crow sp. 6 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 16 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Wood Thrush 1 (arrival) American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 7 European Starling 5 Yellow Warbler 15 Magnolia Warbler 1 (breeding male) American Redstart 1 (1st spring male) Common Yellowthroat 22 Northern Cardinal 1 Song Sparrow 46 Swamp Sparrow 5 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Red-winged Blackbird 70 Orchard Oriole 1 (1st spring male) American Goldfinch 6 REPTILES Painted Turtle 1 Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com